CLIMATE CHANGE

In his masque in honor of chastity and free thinking, John Milton introduces to his audience the virtues of recta ratio, the ability to exercise reason and restraint in the face of temptation and libidinal desire.

They’re here now, but they won’t be around forever.

The death toll from five days of torrential rains and subsequent floods in the Philippines climbed to 60 Friday while weather forecasts predict more rains across the main island of Luzon. Rescue and relief efforts are under way to help hundreds of thousands of people affected that crippled the capital Manila and surrounding areas.

Ground squirrels living near the Rocky Mountains are waking up from hibernation later as snowstorms keep falling later in spring, researchers found in a new study.

NASA researcher James Hansen is coauthor of a new paper that places the blame for heat waves over the past few years squarely on global warming.

A study led by a former climate change skeptic concludes that man-made greenhouse emissions have contributed to the planet's rising temperature.

This year, Greenland's vast ice sheet is melting earlier and over a wider range than usual. That's just one sign that this year is shaping up to be a real scorcher.

A lack of B vitamins could hamper the growth of essential microorganisms, scientists say.

Previous studies have pegged polar bear origin at around 600,000 years ago, but they've actually existed as a distinct species as early as 5 million years ago, according to a new paper.

In Namibia, finding an aquifer is akin to striking gold.

The penguins, who appeared to be well-fed and uninjured, were migrating northward in search of warmer waters.

Former Republican presidential candidate and Utah governor Jon Huntsman said he will not attend the party's convention this summer, continuing his critique of Republican orthodoxy.

As the Midwest teeters from the impact of one of the most damaging heat waves in U.S. history, declining yields on crops could hurt the public by raising food and commodity prices to staggering proportions, according to commodities trading data.

It?s not because the exchange rate is different.

Thousands of miles away, a cadre of international Nobel laureates assembled to discuss global warming were having a, er, heated debate, arguing over data that the vast majority of scientists the world over say shows clear evidence of manmade climate change. But in the steaming streets of Brooklyn, the crowded public pools of Atlanta and the power outage-hit suburbs of Washington, D.C., the discussion was unanimous: It was hot.

Colorado's devastating Waldo Canyon wildfire that has burnt down over 6,500 acres of dry timber since Saturday grew ferocious on Wednesday, spreading to an area of 67 square kilometers (26 square miles), while increasing threat for over 20,000 homes and other buildings.

A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.

While coal has powered the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, heated homes and generated electricity, the era of King Coal has come to an end.

Drones can save lives! Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or Conservation Drones will soon be used to save nature and protect endangered species in Nepal, after the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) successfully tested drones for monitoring activities in protected zones.

Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit, world leaders are returning to Rio de Janeiro to negotiate further progress toward sustainable development. However, the potential for this year?s Rio+20 Summit to have a similar impact is less likely.

Millions of years ago, the ice-covered Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than it is today, claimed a recent study. The climate along the edges of the frozen continent was even suitable to support substantial vegetation including stunted trees.